Stupid Quotes - Page 25

• Don't do anything stupid.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

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• The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

  Matt Groening

  World

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• Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. “Now, Sabin. He didn’t mean any harm. He’s borderline stupid. You know that.

  Gena Showalter

  Mean, Men, Acting

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.95, HQN Books

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• When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Strong, Princess, Passion

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.84, Xist Publishing

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• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Safety, Perfect, Laughing

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

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• It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Ideas, America

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

  William Saroyan

  Littles, Knows

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Past, Lunch

  "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". Book by Michael Chabon, 1988.

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• Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mother, Believe, Soul

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.27, Chronicle Books

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• Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Wall, Tired, Thinking

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• I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

  Alfred de Vigny

  Order, Understanding, Mediocrity

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• Stupid, fragile mortals.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Fragile, Mortals

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• Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

  John Steinbeck

  Ignorance, Men, Want

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.250, Penguin

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• I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Clever, Thinking, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.154, Macmillan

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• If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Years, Twelve

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.40, Trajectory Inc

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• And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, Knowing, Asking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.74, Penguin

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• Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

  Thomas Bernhard

  People, Confusion, Devil

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• In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  Coco Chanel

  Intelligent, Dumb, Sensitive

  "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, p. 95, 1971.

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• I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Hurt, Kids, Past

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

  Jean Cocteau

  Smell, Drug, World

  Jean Cocteau (1932). “Opium: The Diary of an Addict”

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• Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Guy, Likes

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.152, Anchor

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• The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Ugly, Malls, Unfree

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• At least when you're young you're also stupid.

  Douglas Coupland

  Young

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• Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Needs, Why Not

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• (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, People, Trying

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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